This study explores the work environment of expatriate women managers in American corporations and investigates the determinants of their job satisfaction. The strategic importance of global assignments has increased over the years. The real cost of unsuccessful expatriates extends beyond the monetary expenses. As the number of women managers working overseas increases, so does the importance o...

This paper explores the effects of overseas activity on parent firm employment in a panel of Taiwan’s large, listed firms during 2000-2005. Propensity score matching estimates of discrete effects suggest that employment growth did not differ significantly between new parents and firms with no overseas operations. Generalized method of moments’ estimates of marginal effects for all firms indicat...

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As immigration for higher education is becoming more common now a days, the adjustment of overseas students to the host country is receiving more attention. This paper describes the results of a study which examined the prevalence and pattern of psychological disturbances among overseas and British students studying at Edinburgh University. The practical implications of these findings and sugge...

A firm can serve overseas customers by exporting or by producing in the foreign market. Thus, ceteris paribus, one might expect increases in overseas investment to displace exports. However, most empirical work has found a positive relation between the two variables. We use a panel data set containing 25 years of data on 932 Japanese manufacturing firms to investigate the effect direct investme...

Amphibians are thought to be unable to disperse over ocean barriers because they do not tolerate the osmotic stress of salt water. Their distribution patterns have therefore generally been explained by vicariance biogeography. Here, we present compelling evidence for overseas dispersal of frogs in the Indian Ocean region based on the discovery of two endemic species on Mayotte. This island belo...